A government out of sight
Subtitle: the mystery of national authority in nineteenth-century America
By: Brian Balogh.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780521820974; 9780521527866
Subjects: Conservatism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Progressivism (United States politics); Free enterprise -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Why look back?; title: How Americans lost sight of the state : adapting republican virtue to liberal self-interest; title: Between revolutions : the promise of the developmental vision; title: "To strengthen and perpetuate that union" : republican political economy; title: Outside the boundaries : "powers and energies in the extreme parts"; title: The uncontested state : letters, law, localities; title: Restoring "spontaneous action and self-regulation" : civil war and civil society; title: Judicial exceptions to Gilded Age laissez-faire; title: "A special form of associative action" : new liberalism and the national integration of public and private; title: Conclusion: Sighting the twentieth-century state.